Research Catalog

Title

Pesticide effects on terrestrial wildlife / edited by L. Somerville, C.H. Walker.

Publication

London ; New York : Taylor & Francis, 1990.

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Additional Authors

• Somerville, L. (Laurence)
• Walker, C. H. (Colin Harold), 1936-

Description

xiv, 404 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Pesticides
• Pesticides > Environmental aspects > Congresses
• Pesticides and wildlife > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Proceedings of an international workshop on terrestrial field testing of pesticides, Cambridge, Sept. 1988.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Why are field trials necessary? -- Current testing in the sequence of development of a pesticide -- Objectives of terrestrial field studies -- Distribution of pesticides and potential exposure of non-target organisms following application -- Changes of residues in soil and plant surfaces following pesticide application : bioaccumulation in plants -- Estimating exposure : the identification of species at risk and routes of exposure -- Evaluative models and field work in estimating exposure of pesticides -- Estimating density and reproductive parameters for terrestrial field testing with birds -- Assessment of survival methods used in wildlife trials -- Organization and interpretation of pesticide exposure studies for assessing the safety of pesticides to vertebrate wildlife of the Federal Republic of Germany -- Biochemical effects of pesticides exploitable in field testing -- Behavioural effects in field tests of pesticides -- Binomial design to refute the hazard to non-target wildlife associated with the use of a pesticide -- Contrasting approaches to field trial design -- Comments on statistical aspects of the "Guidance document for contrasting terrestrial field studies" -- Intensive study versus extensive monitoring in pesticide field trials -- Review of current field methods to assess the effects of pesticides on wildlife -- Sample size and area : implications based on long-term monitoring of partridges -- Integrated laboratory and field approach for assessing hazards of pesticide exposure to wildlife -- Problems in the estimation of percent mortality in carcass searching studies -- Acceptability of pesticide-induced damage to wildlife -- Population dynamics in relation to pesticide use, with particular reference to birds and mammals -- Use of terrestrial field data in the practical application of ecological risk assessment principles -- Risk assessment models for terrestrial effects of pesticides.

ISBN

0850667674

LCCN

^^^90034472^

OCLC

21332706

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library